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All we were promised : a novel

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"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, hiding their past and identities to protect themselves from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives. Charlotte longs to break away, but outside the walls of their townhouse, the City of Brotherly Love is up in arms. Pennsylvania is a free state, yet abolitionists are struggling to establish a permanent home for the anti-slavery movement, as southern sympathizers incite violence against free Black people and white vigilantes stalk the streets. Undeterred, Charlotte sneaks out and forges an unlikely friendship with Nell, a member of one of Philadelphia's wealthiest Black families. Nell is under so much pressure from her parents to settle down and marry Alex, a close family friend, that the two pretend to get engaged, just to take the heat off. Meanwhile Nell and Charlotte grow close over their mutual commitment to abolition, so when Evie, Charlotte's enslaved friend from White Oaks, shows up in the city, they conspire to help her flee North. Charlotte and her father's freedom is threatened as she and Nell navigate the abolitionist world's racial and class politics and ever-present dangers, struggling to forge a plan to free Evie from slavery before it's too late. Inspired by the untold history of Pennsylvania Hall, one of Philadelphia's landmarks lost to violence, All We Were Promised is the story of three young Black women-the rebel, the socialite, and the fugitive-fighting for each other in an American city straining to live up to its loftiest ideals"--

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  • 15 of 18 copies available at Westchester Library System.

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Ardsley Public Library FICTION LATTIMORE (Text)
New Fiction
31000151339127
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Chappaqua Library FICTION LATTIMORE (Text)
Fiction
31005153431855
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Croton Free Library FICTION/LATTIMORE (Text)
Fiction
31006151963683
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Eastchester Public Library FICTION LATTIMORE (Text)
Fiction
31008152588899
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Greenburgh Public Library LATTIMORE (Text)
Fiction
31009155100583
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Harrison Public Library LATTIMORE, A. (Text)
Fiction
31010300345172
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Hendrick Hudson Free Library LATTIMORE, ASHTON (Text)
Fiction
31016151865358
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Larchmont Public Library LATTIMORE (Text)
Fiction
31014153076116
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Mount Pleasant Public Library FIC LATTIMORE (Text)
Fiction
31024153445401
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New Rochelle Public Library LATTIMORE (Text)
Fiction
31019157347181
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New Rochelle Public Library LATTIMORE (Text)
Fiction
31019157352058
Checked out
01/31/2025
Ossining Public Library FICTION (Text)
Fiction
31021153850317
Available
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Ruth Keeler Memorial Library F LATTIMORE (Text)
New Fiction
31020150836188
Checked out
01/31/2025
Scarsdale Public Library FICTION (Text)
Fiction
31029154524690
Checked out
01/28/2025
Tuckahoe Public Library FICTION LATTIMORE (Text)
Fiction
31034170195764
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Warner Library FICTION LATTIMORE (Text)
New Fiction
31033152168476
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Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library FICTION (Text)
Fiction
31035163049934
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Yonkers Riverfront Library FIC Lattimor (Text)
Fiction
31035600064843
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